As Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski sets his sights on the governor’s mansion, he'll also face a contested race for mayor here at home. W. Michael Donovan, an unaffiliated independent candidate who will challenge Pawlowski in the fall, stepped up his campaign last

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As Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski sets his sights on the governor’s mansion, he'll also face a contested race for mayor here at home. W. Michael Donovan, an unaffiliated independent candidate who will challenge Pawlowski in the fall, stepped up his campaign last

After years of delay, the U.S. Senatepassed a $109 billion highway bill to keep federal surface transportation programs funded for another two years. A multi-year authorization has been stalled over the inability to find funding to pay for what's supposed...

Individuals in the Lehigh Valley have been declared eligible for federal aid for damage caused by Hurricane Irene. The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Sept. 13 announced it added Lehigh, Northampton, Monroe, Montgomery and Bucks counties to the individu

Pennsylvania's County Commissioners ... ... said they're onboard with the Corbett administration's plan to reshape the way the state delivers money for human service programs used by county governments. During his budget address yesterday, the Republican propo

The long-delayed re-authorization of the law that provides most of the federal road, bridge and mass-transit funding for the states finally passed the Senate today. Though House approval is still required, an amendment tacked on by Sen. Bob Casey would steer m

Good Tuesday Morning, Felllow Seekers. It's Tuesday, June 26, 2012. And there are a mere five days to go before the start of the new fiscal year. In 1948, the U.S. began its famed Berlin Airlift. In 1956, Congress approved ...

Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The state House convenes at 9:30 a.m. this morning to finally begin consideration of the 2012-13 state budget. The chamber broke for the night last night without beginning an expected debate on the $27,66 billion ...

Pennsylvania’s four state-related universities and the 14 state-owned universities would likely receive the same amount of money as they did last year; public schools and public libraries would also be level-funded, but a program that provides cash assistance

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Welcome to the penultimate weekend of August 2012. This month's been another quick one in a summer that -- as they all do -- just seems to have flown by. But don't worry, there are ...

With the nation on a fiscally unsustainable path, the federal government has these choices: Cut spending, raise taxes, or do both. Health care spending, a huge part of the government's budget, stands as a huge target. A new report lays out the impact of propos

The Quinn administration handed out $800,000 in anti-violence money to a politically influential South Side community group even after the nonprofit filed documents with the state acknowledging it suffered from years of financial missteps, a Tribune...

WASHINGTON -- Americans overwhelmingly agree that the income gap between the rich and everyone else has grown in recent years, but they are divided sharply by party when asked what, if anything, the government should do about it.
Roughly two-thirds of...

Rep. Michele Bachmann has been propelled into the 2012 presidential contest in part by her insistent calls to reduce federal spending, a pitch in tune with the big-government antipathy gripping many conservatives.
But theMinnesota Republican and her...

By now, I am sure you have all heard the recent controversy surrounding Susan G. Komen and the subsequent amendment of the grant funding criteria policy. Nothing has changed these past few days as far as the local funding for breast cancer services...

Owning your own home is the American dream, but for many people, it has created fear and frustration as they try to avoid a foreclosure nightmare. These days, people of all income levels are fighting off foreclosures, from those caught in the subprime...

Mayor Martin O'Malley released yesterday a list of his priorities for the General Assembly session that includes requests for more than $30 million in public safety and economic development initiatives.
Most of the new money is aimed at expanding drug...

The Ehrlich administration rolled out the big guns yesterday to defend a tax credit that rewards owners and developers for rehabilitating historic properties, and to criticize a proposal to convert it to a grant program.
Three Cabinet secretaries joined...

The state will pay more than $60 million as its share of federal hurricane assistance to Floridians but has no control over how the money is spent or who gets it.
Florida officials also have no plans to ask the Federal Emergency Management Agency for...

As Marylanders struggled to recover from Isabel's destruction, another storm hit early yesterday, dumping heavy rain on an already soaked region, renewing fears of flooding, forcing the closure of more roads and setting back efforts to restore power.
In...